Political Economy of Migration

Catalog description

This course explores the constants and variables of immigration. The course will also consider the extent to which overseas investment in less developed countries and the strengthening of regional customs unions and the WTO will affect immigration trends. Due to the gap in the quality of life in developed versus less developed countries as well as the ongoing demand for cheap, unskilled labor, the number of immigrants to the developed world continues to grow in the United States and in the European Union. This Course also invites learners to assess how the growing demographic of immigrants and their children may affect voting patterns, public education, and the foreign policy priorities of the developed societies where they tend to settle.